I wanted to buy a bitcoin. I knew I was late to the party as usual, but I wanted to feel what it is like to go through the process of signing up, buying one, and storing it in a wallet on my desktop. This may seem simple enough, but it took 12 frustrating days before I was able to download my first bitcoin.

I am relearning PHP after years of not programming and thought it would be a good idea to combine studying PDO with using SQLite for the first time. My first attempts ended with an empty page and no error messages in the log files. What could have gone wrong?

Google Reader is shutting down. I am looking into 2 DIY solutions for replacing Google’s free service, but then I saw Digg presenting itself as a replacement with an iOS app ready and an Android app in the works. It sounded too good to be true.